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Today is St. Patrick\u2019s Day. But for most people it won\u2019t be observed as other years. This morning I celebrated a \u201cprivate\u201d Mass in the Seminary Chapel of St. Patrick\u2019s College Maynooth perhaps the most beautiful Catholic church in Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I think that many visitors to PrayTell may well have a little time on their hands these days as various forms of social distancing take place throughout the world.<\/p>\n

So if you have time, it might be well spent today in getting to know the real St. Patrick. We have his spiritual autobiography which gives an extraordinary testimony to his life and ministry, his faith and his struggles. It allows us to meet the real man, stripped of legends of snakes and shamrocks (not to mention green beer). It is one of the most precious documents from the fifth century and can be read in a single sitting.\u00a0 Yet most people, even in Ireland, have never read it. Admittedly it isn\u2019t an autobiography in the modern sense (it doesn\u2019t even definitively prove that he wasn\u2019t born in modern-day England), but the story he tells is<\/p>\n

Dublin\u2019s Royal Irish Academy<\/a> has done a wonderful service in putting a lot of material on-line, publishing a website dedicated to St. Patrick\u2019s Confessions: www.confessio.ie<\/a> \u00a0For the first time ever, high resolution copies of the eight medieval manuscript copies of the Confessio <\/em>have been made available.\u00a0 These have been hyperlinked and it is now possible to consult any word of the story in all of the manuscripts and even to compile your own critical edition of the Latin text. \u00a0The RIA also put pdf copies of some of their own books on-line with free access and have also commissioned some modern introductory material to help contextualize the story.<\/p>\n

For those whose early medieval Latin is a little rusty, Fr. P\u00e1draig McCarthy\u2019s English translation<\/a> is also provided (P\u00e1draig often comments on this blog). Translations into Irish, Portuguese, Italian, German and English verse are also included. People might also be interested in Patricks anti-slavery Letter to Coroticus<\/a>, an early example of Christian social teaching on slavery is also included.<\/p>\n

All in all, it gives enough solid material for the novice or expert in early Irish history to profitably spend an afternoon getting to better know Ireland\u2019s Patron Saint!<\/p>\n

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